Brookside Close

[KeaneFan]

does anyone know where about in liverpool brookside was filmed, i want to know exactly where the close itself is, im sure it's either childwall or merseyside somewhere but im not 100% sure, any help would be appreciated, thanks very much.

[spainlads]

The now defunct Brookside (postcode: "L12 0BA") was filmed on an estate of houses specially purchased (at �25,000 each) in the early 1980s by Phil Redmond's Mersey TV company, just off Deysbrook Lane in West Derby, Liverpool.

The estate is very close to Croxteth Hall and Country Park, which itself has been used as a film and TV location regularly. Although the estate was called "Brookside Close" in the programme, the real road in West Derby is called just "Brookside" and the real residents live in numbers 1-41. Number 43 Brookside, West Derby was the address of the soap's production office, beyond a security barrier at the far end of the road. In total, 13 houses were owned by Mersey TV - six featured in the storylines and the other seven were used for costume, make-up, video editing, prop stores and canteen, etc.

In the 1990s, Mersey TV expanded the original set by using part of their new headquarters, Campus Manor, located at an old college in Childwall ("L16 0JP").